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Fantastic Fest 2009

Drey — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:47:57 +0000

This will be updated as the festival continues.

The movies I have seen so far, in order of best experience:

1. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
2. A Town Called Panic
3. Stingray Sam
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Mandrill
6. Bronson
7. Toy Story 3D
8. A Serious Man
9. Fish Story
10. Metropia
11. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
12. Daybreakers
13. Krabat
15. Gentlemen Broncos
16. Antichrist
17. Dirty Mind
18. Crazy Racer
19. The Men Who Stare at Goats
20. Clive Barker’s Dread
21. Under the Mountain
22. Survival of the Dead
23. First Squad
24. K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces
25. The Legend is Alive
26. Universal Soldier: A New Beginning

2008 Movie Wrap-up

Drey — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:46:50 +0000

I don’t expect to see anything else this year to break into the top ten, so that leaves us with:

1. The Fountain
2. Brothers Bloom
3. Blade Runner
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Batman Begins
8. Justice League: New Frontier
9. Moulin Rouge!
10. Ghostbusters

And for the movies that were released in 2008, there’s a list for that as well:

1. Brothers Bloom
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Justice League: New Frontier
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. JCVD
7. Zack & Miri Make a Porno
8. Wanted
9. Hancock
10. WALL-E

A Blooming Porno

Drey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:29:53 +0000

Brothers Bloom and Zack & Miri topped my list at Fantastic Fest. Brothers Bloom is a perfect movie which I fell head over heels in love with. Rian Johnson has now made two of my favorite all time movies.

Zack & Miri is probably the most consistently funny Kevin Smith movie, if not the most clever or geeky. It isn’t just a good Kevin Smith movie, it is a good *movie* in its own right.

1. The Fountain
2. Brothers Bloom
3. Blade Runner
4. The Dark Knight
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Batman Begins
7. Ghostbusters
8. Barton Fink
9. Old Boy
10. Zack & Miri Make a Porno

Fantastic Fest 2008 Top Ten

Drey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:49 +0000

A running tally of my Fantastic Fest faves.

1. Brothers Bloom
2. Zack & Miri Make a Porno
3. Not Quite Hollywood
4. JCVD
5. Astropia
6. Repo! – The Genetic Opera
7. Sauna
8. The Good The Bad The Weird
9. The Burrowers
10. The Substitute
11. Fanboys
12. Short Films of Nacho Vigalondo
13. Chocolate
14. Kingz
15. Let the Right One In
16. RocknRolla
17. Eagle Eye
18. The Chaser
19. Tokyo!
20. Role Models
21. Santos
22. Your Name Here
23. Fears of the Dark
24. City of Ember
25. Seventh Moon
26. Terra
27. Deadgirl
28. Alien Raiders

The Dark Knight

Drey — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:31:23 +0000

Anyone who doesn’t like this movie is not to be trusted, as they are most likely a cyborg sent from the future to kill you.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. The Dark Knight
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Batman Begins
6. Ghostbusters
7. Barton Fink
8. Old Boy
9. Wanted
10. Hancock

Wanted

Drey — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:36:21 +0000

2 parts Matrix. 1 part Fight Club. 10 shades of badass.

It ends with an urgent question which I encourage everyone to ask themselves.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Batman Begins
5. Ghostbusters
6. Barton Fink
7. Old Boy
8. Wanted
9. Hancock
10. WALL-E

Hancock

Drey — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:30:15 +0000

I have not been so surprised by a film since Fight Club. Hancock is about superheroes the way that Fight Club is about punching. This impression should of course be taken with a grain of salt as the film really spoke to me on some other level. Your mileage may vary.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Batman Begins
5. Ghostbusters
6. Barton Fink
7. Old Boy
8. Hancock
9. WALL-E
10. CQ

WALL-E

Drey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:26:55 +0000

Perfect! The Macintosh sound clip for WALL-E’s recharge cycle sealed the deal. Even the end credits were amazing.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Batman Begins
5. Ghostbusters
6. Barton Fink
7. Old Boy
8. WALL-E
9. CQ
10. Iron Man

How could I forget?

Drey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:53:03 +0000

Someone on the GeeksOn forum reminded me that I had watched CQ a few weeks ago. I failed to meticulously record it here. Anyone who enjoys watching Jeremy Davies do that Jeremy Davies thing should check out “CQ”. He does it for the *whole movie*! Go into it knowing nothing about the movie for maximum potency.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Batman Begins
5. Ghostbusters
6. Barton Fink
7. Old Boy
8. CQ
9. Iron Man
10. The Fall

The Fall

Drey — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:54:36 +0000

Tarsem’s “The Cell” was a gorgeous but irreparably flawed film. I gave him a second chance with his latest work, “The Fall.” It evoked the delightful and self-aware storytelling of The Princess Bride and combined it with a palette of color and cinematography you might see in an Ang Lee film. The little girl seemed to have wandered in from a Guillermo del Toro movie and was awkwardly wonderful. Apparently, Lee Pace (Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies) is best suited to surreal projects and he really shone here. Now I will definitely have to go back and revisit Pushing Daisies.

1. The Fountain
2. Blade Runner
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Batman Begins
5. Ghostbusters
6. Barton Fink
7. Old Boy
8. Iron Man
9. The Fall
10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull